Property of JMM MLA attached

JMM MLA Sita Soren's property here was attached today following Supreme Court questioning CBI's role in not arresting her in an alleged horse trading in Rajya Sabha.
A senior CBI official confirmed that Soren's property had been attached.
Sita Soren, who is absconding, is the widow of JMM chief Shibu Soren's son Durga.
Her father B N Manjhi and her private secretary Rajendra Mandal were also accused in the case.
The investigating agency had recently got the special CBI court's permission to attach the property. The absconding legislator is one of the accused in the horse trading case lodged by CBI following the rescinding of the March 30, 2012 Rajya Sabha polls.

Though she has been evading arrest, Sita Soren had managed to reach the state assembly and cast her vote in the trust vote moved by Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on July 18 last year.

The apex court while hearing the bail petition of another accused R K Agarwal had on February 16 asked CBI whether it could not arrest her and caught hold of soft targets.
Agarwal, an industrialist, was in the fray as an independent in the scrapped RS poll.
The poll had been scrapped by Election Commission after Rs 2.15 crore was seized from a vehicle at Namkum on the outskirts of Ranchi on March 30, the election day. The police had said the vehicle belonged to kin of Agarwal.

On February 14, a special CBI court here had framed charges against Agarwal and industrialist Pawan Dhoot, who too had filed his nominations for the 2012 RS polls.
The EC held the polls afresh on May 3 that year.
CBI is also investigating the 2010 RS elections in Jharkhand following allegations of horse trading.